Marcus Brutus

"Every man is capable of both greatness and ruin."

"The cost of liberty is the constant vigilance of its defenders."

"Ambition without principle is a ship without a rudder."

"We deceive ourselves more thoroughly than any enemy could."

"Justice delayed is justice denied, and justice denied corrodes the soul."

"The strongest oath is the one made to oneself in silence."

"To understand a man, look not at his words but at his choices."

"Power corrupts not through its possession, but through its justification."

"A legacy of shame is worse than a death in obscurity."

"The burden of knowledge is heavier than the burden of ignorance."

"We are defined not by our greatest triumphs but by our smallest compromises."

"Time is the ultimate judge of all human actions."

"The greatest revolution begins in the human heart."

"Loyalty without wisdom is merely servitude with a noble name."

"A man cannot serve two masters without betraying one."

"The fall of a great man teaches more than the rise of a hundred."

"Silence in the face of wrong is complicity with wrong."

"The value of a man is measured by what he sacrifices, not what he gains."

"To love one's country is to challenge it when it errs."

"The sharpest pain comes not from the blow but from the hand that strikes it."

"Fortune favors not the bold but the prepared."

"A nation that forgets its principles deserves the tyrant it gets."

"The mirror shows us what we are; conscience shows us what we should be."

"Death is certain; how we die is our only choice."

"The corruption of the best becomes the worst."

"To stand apart requires more courage than to stand together."

"Wisdom whispers where ambition shouts."

"The price of peace is eternal vigilance against tyranny."

"A man who knows himself cannot be easily led astray."

"The sweetest rewards taste bitter when earned dishonorably."